[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 202 (Thursday, October 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63774-63775]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-22725]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2014-0313; FRL-10128-01-ORD]


Availability of the Draft IRIS Toxicological Review of Hexavalent 
Chromium

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of public comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a 60-
day public comment period associated with release of the draft 
Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Toxicological Review of 
Hexavalent Chromium. The draft document was prepared by the Center for 
Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) within EPA's Office 
of Research and Development (ORD).
    EPA is releasing this draft IRIS assessment for public comment in 
advance of a Science Advisory Board (SAB) led peer review. SAB will 
convene a public meeting to discuss the draft report with the public 
during Step 4 of the IRIS Process. The external peer reviewers will 
consider public comments submitted to the EPA docket in response to 
this notice and any others provided at the public meeting when 
reviewing this document. EPA will consider all comments submitted to 
the docket when revising the document post-peer review. This draft 
assessment is not final as described in EPA's information quality 
guidelines, and it does not represent, and should not be construed to 
represent Agency policy or views.

DATES: The 60-day public comment period begins October 20, 2022 and 
ends December 19, 2022. Comments must be received on or before December 
19, 2022.

ADDRESSES: The IRIS Toxicological Review of Hexavalent Chromium will be 
available via the internet on the IRIS website at https://www.epa.gov/iris/iris-recent-additions and in the public docket at http://www.regulations.gov,

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Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2014-0313.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on the public comment 
period, contact the ORD Docket at the EPA Headquarters Docket Center; 
telephone: 202-566-1752; facsimile: 202-566-9744; or email: 
[email protected].
    For technical information on the IRIS Toxicological Review of 
Hexavalent Chromium contact Dr. Andrew Kraft, CPHEA; telephone: 202-
564-0286; or email: [email protected]. The IRIS Program will provide 
updates through the IRIS website (https://www.epa.gov/iris) and via 
EPA's IRIS listserv. To register for the IRIS listserv, visit the IRIS 
website (https://www.epa.gov/iris) or visit https://www.epa.gov/iris/forms/staying-connected-integrated-risk-information-system#connect.
    For information about the peer review, please visit the EPA SAB 
website: https://sab.epa.gov/ords/sab/f?p=114:1::::::.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. How to Submit Technical Comments to the 
Docket at https://www.regulations.gov. Submit your comments, identified 
by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2014-0313 for the Hexavalent Chromium IRIS 
Assessment, by one of the following methods:
     www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for 
submitting comments.
     Email: [email protected].
     Fax: 202-566-9744. Due to COVID-19, there may be a delay 
in processing comments submitted by fax.
     Mail: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket 
Center (ORD Docket), Mail Code: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20460. The phone number is 202-566-1752. Due to COVID-
19, there may be a delay in processing comments submitted by mail.
    For information on visiting the EPA Docket Center Public Reading 
Room, visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets. Due to public health concerns 
related to COVID-19, the EPA Docket Center and Reading Room may be 
closed to the public with limited exceptions. The telephone number for 
the Public Reading Room is 202-566-1744. The public can submit comments 
via www.regulations.gov or email.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to docket number EPA-HQ-ORD-
2014-0313 for IRIS Toxicological Review of Hexavalent Chromium. Please 
ensure that your comments are submitted within the specified comment 
period. It is EPA's policy to include all comments it receives in the 
public docket within the specified comment period without change and to 
make the comments available online at www.regulations.gov, including 
any personal information provided, unless a comment includes 
information claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or 
other information for which disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not 
submit information through www.regulations.gov or email that you 
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected. The www.regulations.gov 
website is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not 
know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the 
body of your comment. If you send an email comment directly to EPA 
without going through www.regulations.gov, your email address will be 
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is 
placed in the public docket and made available on the internet. If you 
submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name 
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any 
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to 
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA 
may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid 
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of 
any defects or viruses. For additional information about EPA's public 
docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
    Docket: Documents in the docket are listed in the 
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other materials, 
such as copyrighted material, are publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the ORD Docket in the EPA 
Headquarters Docket Center.

Wayne Cascio,
Director, Center for Public Health & Environmental Assessment.
[FR Doc. 2022-22725 Filed 10-19-22; 8:45 am]
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